Peshawar (AsiaNews / Agencies) - On the night of 16 November, the Taliban targeted a girls school in a bomb attack in the village of Yousaf Kely, near the town of Bara, 20 km south of Peshawar.
The blast damaged the building, making it unusable, but caused no casualties because the structure was empty at the time of the blast. It is the third attack this month by Islamic militants against a girls' school in Khyber district.
November 1, two bombs hit a school for girls in the village of Kari Gar injuring four people, damaging the structure and the adjacent houses. On November 4, another explosion occurred in the suburbs of Bara: 30kg of explosives destroyed 8 of the 26 classrooms of a local school and damaged the entire building.
Last year, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and North West Frontier Province registered hundreds of Taliban attacks against schools, most of for female education. With the start of the new army offensive in South Waziristan, Islamabad, the government ordered the closure for a week of schools and colleges because the subject of frequent attacks by Islamic extremists.